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bed, it has not been made these two
weeks and now it is about the time the
maid makes all the rest, so I'll go, and
make mine too. No, no, says his master,
go to your plow, and I'll cause it to be
made every night, Then, says Tom,
I'll plow two or three furrows more, in the
time, so Tom gained his end.
One day a butcher came and bought
a fine fat calf from Tom's master: and
Tom laid it on the horse's neck, before
the Butcher; when he was gone, now
says Tom what will you hold master, but
I'll steal the calf from the butcher before
he goes two miles off? Says his master
I'll hold a guinea you don't. Done, says
Tom. Into the house he goes, and takes
a good shoe of his master's and runs ano-
ther way across a field, till he got before
the Butcher, near the corner of a hedge,
where there was an open and turning of
the way; here Tom darns himself behind
the hedge, and throws the shoe into the
middle of the high-way; so when the
Butcher came up riding, with his calf
before him, Hey, said he to himself,
there's a good shoe! if I knew how to
get on my calf again, I would light for it
but what signifies one shoe without its
neighbour? So on he rides and lets it lie.
